The conservatives in Canada seemed to do an okay job during the recession. AFAIK our total job losses in the recession have already been gained back in new jobs, credit card balances are going down, and loan delinquency is down to levels lower than they were pre-recession.

Although I guess we have the benefit of having a relatively large chunk of our economy being based in commodities. No matter the economic conditions, people are always going to need oil and lumber._________________Whatever happened to the heroes?

Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it..._________________The older I get, the more certain I become of one thing. True and abiding cynicism is simply a form of cowardice.

it's sorta like mike lee objecting to the u.n. treaty protecting rights of the disabled because it is a threat to u.s. sovereignty - and also pointing out that the treaty has no enforcement power. it's like they can't remember what they've said from minute to minute. they react to what happened in the last moment, and don't even have a clue about how stupid it makes them look._________________aka: neverscared!
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Did you just trash the liberal arts? Jesus, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say. Do you even know what's included in the liberal arts (it's probably easier to list what isn't)? Not to mention the ridiculous notion of judging people on the basis of their major. What did you study, Thy? Is everyone who studied it as much of an asshole?_________________"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. Iíll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman

Did you just trash the liberal arts? Jesus, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say. Do you even know what's included in the liberal arts (it's probably easier to list what isn't)? Not to mention the ridiculous notion of judging people on the basis of their major. What did you study, Thy? Is everyone who studied it as much of an asshole?

Maybe Thy secretly has a Liberal Arts degree from Hampshire College and is just self hating._________________...if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.http://about.me/omardrake

No, seriously. Let's forget for a moment that, because it's an evolution of the Greek education ideal, that liberal arts is often "liberal arts and sciences" and includes things like biology. Let's focus on things like philosophy, psychology, history, and economics. All of them are often housed in liberal arts departments (depending on the school). God forbid anyone with a degree in one of those should ever have power! We need to consolidate power among people with technical degrees, not ones focused on broad experience that broadens the perspective. Perspective is dangerous! Or something.

It's like saying we have too many R's. One ought to be enough!_________________"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. Iíll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman

I don't disagree with you that "Such is the folly of allowing those that master the liberal arts to gain power" is dumb as shit (imagine that, people in politics usually have political science degrees WOW) but we have to keep this in context of this being the guy whose immediate objection to physician assisted suicide laws was because the government would use them to off whistleblowers. Whose position on the cartels is that they exist with the blessing of the US government to provide cheap labor and that this is "generally accepted" fact. That making silly fun of the idea that there are a lot of philosophers working as baristas is literally "bigoted" but being bigoted against all Roma isn't being bigoted because he didn't directly specify he was talking about all Roma when he was expressing why no Roma should be trusted. And I'm just naming the examples I know of in which the core of his position was decipherable.

Fair enough, he's said a lot of crazy things. I don't remember the Roma one, but that has the same essence. I can forgive crazy, irrational beliefs. Ignorant bigotry just doesn't seem to sit well with me. What can I say? It's a personal failing. _________________"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. Iíll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman